The Black Ice "Green Man" Card #laviniastamps

While I had the inks and everything out for the first "Black Ice" project, I thought I would make another but add another colour.  

Unfortunately, I'm still picking up reflections in the mirror card, so apologies for the quality of the photography.  I've tried different angles and lights, but none of them are great.

I've watched a youtube tutorial on how to do it.  I've used a piece of silver mirror/foil card and inked it with black StazOn, dragging it from top to bottom to get a streaked look.  I've then rotated it twice to then ink from what was the bottom to the top that is now the bottom, if you get what I mean.  I repeated the technique using an "Azure" shade of StazOn ink to get the blue areas.

I then stamped the Lavinia Stamps "Green Man" in black StazOn ink.  I dragged a Versamark ink pad across the surface (again top to bottom) to get a streaked look, then coated with clear embossing powder and heated with a heat gun.  Finally, I mounted it onto black and blue card.

Male Birthday Card using "Black Ice" Technique (Papercraft Essentials Issue 61)

I had heard about a technique called "Black Ice", so I 
Googled it and found out how to do it.  The best demonstration I found for it is this one.  It is clear and easy to follow.

I thought the look of the black ice, leant itself to a male card, so that is the direction I took.  I used a stamp and embossing folder Apple Blossom set which came free with issue 61 of Papercraft Essentials magazine.

I started by embossing a piece of black card and mounted it to a white card blank.

Using a piece of mirror/foil card, I dragged a black StazOn ink across the surface, from top to bottom.  I then rotated it and dragged it in the opposite direction so that there was equal amount of ink at both the top and the bottom of the foil card.

Using the stamps from the magazine I mentioned earlier, I stamped the sentiment and beer glasses, also in Black StazOn ink.

Using a Versamark clear ink embossing pad, I dragged it across the surface, in the same direction as earlier, from top and bottom, I didn't want total coverage, but more of a streaked effect.  I then coated it with clear embossing powder and heated till raised.

I finished the card, by mounting the foil section onto a piece of black card and then mounting that with foam pads for elevation onto the embossed surface already prepared.

I do like the look of this technique, but it is very hard to get decent photographs as I seem to pick up the colours on mirror card from around me.